Friday Fun

I know, it's Wednesday, I'm a little behind!  Last Friday we watched Morgan so Darin and Margaret could go out to celebrate her birthday.  We had a fun night together, as always! 

We started with dinner, playing, and then a dance party in the office...ha!  We probably should have shut the blinds because the neighbors across the street probably thought we were crazy.  The girls were precious though and Reagan can shake.that.booty! :)  It was priceless!

Finally we all had to wear "cippies" (clips) in our hair, according to Reagan. She actually kept it in long enough for a picture too!

Cheese!

Flash wasn't on in the last one, and there was no time for another picture, so as you can see she is just pouting on the carpet...with "cippie" in hand!

Taking out Mommy's "cippie"

16 Weeks!

Today I turned 16 weeks pregnant!!  I went to the doctor yesterday and was so nervous and excited for that appointment.  They didn't do an external heartbeat at my 12 week appointment, so I just couldn't wait to hear that pitter patter yesterday.  The doctor I saw knew I was anxious about it and put that doppler on my belly right away.  A perfect heartbeat, on a very active baby apparently, at 155!  Nice and strong :)

I just read on my Baby Center update that this is when the growth spurt begins...in the next couple weeks this little one will double in weight and in size, which means Momma will too :)  I really do love being pregnant, especially at this stage, when you are feeling yourself again!  Right now Baby K #2 is the size of an avacado! 

Over the weekend I did a little maternity clothes shopping...I am just at a funky inbetween right now where my regular clothes are just a little uncomfortable in the waist and my maternity pants are a little big, pretty positive the only reason they are big is because I stretched them out so badly when I was preggo with Reags!!

We are just getting really excited for this little baby and I keep thinking about what this summer is going to be like...in a word, crazy! :)  I feel so blessed and just want this little peanut to stay nice and nestled and grow big and strong...maybe not TOO big though! ;)

At the next appointment we'll have the ultrasound....hmmm....are we going to find out what we're having?!?!  Stay tuned! :)

Croup...

Well, it has hit us...croup!  Poor Reags, just as she was feeling better from her terrible fever last week, she woke up coughing, more like barking, on Monday morning.  I said to Keith right away, that sounds like croup, but I think he was still in dreamland :) 

He took Reags to the doctor yesterday morning (because I had a doctor's appointment) and low and behold, it was croup.  They gave her a liquid steroid at the doctor's office to help with the cough and I think that helped out a lot!  My mom drove down yesterday afternoon, THANK YOU, because, as you can imagine, I was a nervous wreck!!  That cough is terrible, even though during the day it really wasn't that bad.  Last night I didn't think I was going to be able to sleep at all, but I did finally fall asleep for a couple hours before I heard her start coughing.

Thankfully, it wasn't a terrible cough though!  I was SO happy!!  I am PRAYING that tonight goes maybe a little better than last night (due to lack of sleep), but we didn't have to do a steam shower or rock outside in the cold, just coming in bed with Mommy and Daddy seemed to do the trick. 

How scary though!  Poor Reagan, I swear...for being a not sick type of girl, she is making up for it.  Thankfully, Reags seems to feel okay, not 100% herself, but not as lethargic as she was last week either.  I hope that whatever this virus is running through her little body is GONE and will not come back for a very, VERY long time!!

20 Months!

(pictures to come!)

Reagan's 20 month birthday has come and gone, but I didn't want anyone to think I forgot about her!  It has been a crazy week in our house, but more on that later!

20...20...seriously?!  Just 4 months away from being 2?  I might start crying...Reags continues to be a sweet girl and is just looking and acting like a big girl to me these days :)

Here are some highlights from the month:
* no more baba!!!!  (praise everything holy!)  she does like her milk in a cup though :)
* no - she very much understands what this word means and how to use it appropriately in context!
* loves to give hugs and kisses
* loves snuggling, especially in the morning and before bed "mommy nuggle peaze"
* she loves to help clean, especially with her wipies and her vacume
* talking a lot!!  I don't know what new words Reagan is saying, but she is able to communicate just about anything that she wants!
* Reagan knows that if she doesn't listen to Mommy or Daddy she has to sit in "ime out" and knows just where to go...I will knock on wood after this, but she hasn't had "ime out" in a long time! :)
* she knows that there is a baby in mommy's belly...I'll ask her what the baby is doing and she says "seeping" or "nap."  haha!
* Reagan loves her m&m's and lately lots of "andy" or candy!  (peppermint patties, which I can't get enough of!)
* she is walking down the steps now, holding a hand and using the wall as her balance.  Such a big girl!
* Reagan is really doing well with her colors!  She loves purple, geen, bue, white, pink, red...it depends on her mood, but I would say for the most part she knows them!
* she can count to three, skips a few, then knows some of the later numbers, just depends on the day which ones.  :)  We always count in her books and as we walk down the steps...she now does it on her own and then Mommy needs to continue with her!
* One of my favorite things, most of the time, is Reagan saying "pome on Mommy" or "pome on Daddy" or whoever she is wanting to come on!  It's pretty hilarious!
* Here is a classic, a couple weekends ago Reagan was taking the lid off of the hamper in our bathroom and I said "Reaggie, Daddy's soccer clothes are stinky" and she said "EWWWW!"  Now whenever you ask her how Daddy's clothes smell she says "EWWWW!"  haha!  Keith loves that ;)

I'm sure I'm forgetting a million things, but she is just the light of our life.  We literally don't go to bed at night without saying how sweet she is about something or how cute she looks sleeping away!  We just love this girl to PIECES!!! :) 

Randoms!

 Just a couple of randoms of Reagan last week....we were eating dinner on Thursday night and she just really didn't want to be alone in the family room, so she brought in pillows, the new Pottery Barn Kids catalog, and Daddy's "bankie" into the kitchen and parked herself right next to us.  It was pretty cute!

She was shopping for the new baby!

After dinner she wanted to put on my coat and just got the biggest kick out of herself.  Who would have thought how much fun a coat could provide!

So fun! :)

Always an Adventure

My birthday weekend was so much fun, well most of it anyway.  We had our great dinner on Friday night, then on Saturday, while Keith was at his soccer game, we went to the mall and then met Keith for lunch.

Photo op with Mum-Mum and Pop-Pop

Playing on the "ice cream truck," with her new kicks!

Riding the "choo-choo" with Mommy and Pop-Pop around the mall...pretty fun!  Reags leaned out and said "huwhoah" to several people walking by!

We were able to sneak out that night, thanks to babysitters Mum-Mum and Pop-Pop!  We went to my favorite restaurant, Maggiano's and did a little shopping around the mall too.  Our big purchase of the night, DROIDS!  We did it, we are now officially in the 21st century.  We figured if my Gran and Gramps can do it, so can we!  :)  Keith has been using a phone that is probably 10 years old, seriously!  He didn't care though, it did what he needed it to do.  Anyway, this was a fun new purchase, now we just have to learn how to really work the thing!

After phone shopping and dinner we were on our way home...so exciting we are!  It was a fun night out though...they are few and far between and when #2 arrives, they will be fewer and farther between!

On Sunday morning when I got Reagan up, I thought she felt a little warm.  However, she did have on fleece, heavy pj's so I thought that was it.  Turns out she had a slight fever, so I gave her some Tylenol and called it a morning, she was acting fine.  As the day went on she started to feel warmer and warmer, by lunch her temp was 102.5!!  Frieck out mode kicked in!!  Reagan has had literally one other fever ever, but never that high.  I gave her more medicine and she took a nap in bed with me while Keith waited for the on call nurse at our doctor's office to call us back.  Reagan's fever seemed a little better after her nap and she was ready to play, but at about 5:30, all she wanted to do was cuddle and she was burning up!!  At about 6:30 I took her temperature and it read 104.5!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  Talk about panic!!  I told Keith what her temp was and we were out the door on our way to the ER.  I was scared out of my mind as to what was wrong.  I just felt so terrible!  Of course we got the ER and we waited for a little while for the nurse to see us.  She took Regan's temperature rectally (no fun at all!) and it was 102.8...better, but not great.  We gave her some motrin and then waited back out in the waiting area for a room to open up for a doctor to see us.  THANK GOODNESS we had just bought our Droids because I was able to pull up partial episodes of Dora and Kai-Lan to keep her occupied...that was our saving grace! :)  We finally went back to see the doctor and again, temperature had to be taken the same way and it had gone down to 100.6, thank goodness!  The doctor thought everything sounded and looked fine, other than the temperature and said that in girls sometimes a urinary tract infection can cause the fever.  SO they had to catheter Reagan for a minute to get a fresh urine sample...talk about breaking your heart!  She was screaming like I have never heard her scream before....of course I was crying and telling the nurses to do what they needed to do to get what they needed because we weren't doing that again!  Oh it was terrible!!  About 45ish minutes later the results came back fine and we were told to just alternate between tylenol and advil...(Just a typical Kepplinger adventure, on our way home from the ER, Keith had to pull over so that I could throw up...lovely I know...I think it was just a mix of being worked up from the hospital and I hadn't eaten anything in awhile.  Yup, it's always something!)

Monday morning Reags was still warm, but not nearly as warm, thankfully.  I called the ped office because we were supposed to go in for a follow up.  Temp had gone way down, but the doctor wanted to test for strep.  UGH!  If I had to look into Reagan's screaming, crying eyes one more time, I was going to lose it.  Thankfully that was negative and she thinks it's just a virus running it's course.  The good news is that Reagan was much more herself on Monday and ate a little more than the day before...all good signs!

She slept well last night...up at 4:30.  I gave her advil and she and I went back to sleep in the guest room until about 7:40, so I was glad for that.  She still has had a low grade fever all day today, so I am thinking we'll be home for one more day...poor thing!!

SO that is our last few days in a nutshell...it is supposed to be almost 70* tomorrow, so I can guarantee you our windows will be open and all of the germs will be blown out of this house!!

29 and Holding!

On Friday, the 28th, I turned 29!!  I don't think it has totally hit me yet that this was my last "20's" birthday.  How did this happen?  I really don't care about turning 30, atleast I don't think I do, but I remember turning 20 like it was yesterday...anyway...it was a great birthday!

Reaggie gave me a special card and wore her adorable cupcake outfit for Mommy's birthday!

We even ate dinner in the dining room...I think that makes it the third time we've used it!  ha :)

Reags kept saying "Happy Birday Mommy!"  Too sweet!

My mom and John came down on Wednesday, ahead of the 18+" of snow they were expecting in PA!  They watched Reagan on Thursday and Friday, which she loved...actually I don't know who had more fun, Mum-Mum and Pop-Pop or Reagan, we'll say it was a tie! 

We had a nice dinner with the Mills on Friday night that my mom and John cooked...all of my faves!  We had filet, mashed potatoes, caesar salad, fruit salad, peas, delicious rolls...oh it was good!  Then a chocolate cake for dessert, I was officially about to POP!  Thank goodness for maternity jeans :)  ha!  Any excuse to pull those bad boys out!

I got spoiled with so many birthday messages, cards, and some pretty fabulous gifts!  Thank you so much for all of the birthday wishes...it was a great day.  Next one will be with 2 kids and I will be turning THIRTY!!!  HOLY!